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Criticism is warranted: Frawley
1:17:45 PM Thu 22 April, 2004
Samantha Lane
Sportal
Richmond coach Danny Frawley has conceded that some of the criticism fired his way by several high-profile media commentators may have been warranted.
Frawley and his team have been heavily criticised since losing their last three matches, against Melbourne, St Kilda and Geelong by an average margin of 51-points.
Frawley, in his fifth season as Tigers coach and on the final year of his contract, has guided his team to 15 wins from 48 matches since leading them to the 2001 preliminary final.
Former Richmond coach, now media commentator Robert Walls this week described Frawley as a ‘dead man walking’, while former Bulldogs coach Terry Wallace also made public his criticism of the side.
“A lot of what’s been written has been warranted,” Frawley said before the team meets winless Adelaide in an important game at Telstra Dome this Friday night.
“Those things, they don’t hurt at all because I suppose if you’re going to worry about sticks and stones you are going to become reactive… as I said, a lot of it’s warranted.”
Frawley even said he accepted the angry tirade directed at him and his players as they walked up the race following a 49-point loss to Geelong last weekend.
“The Richmond supporters are very passionate and like everyone else they’re very frustrated. That’s warranted. That’s fair enough.”
Frawley has been guaranteed his position until at least the end of this year by the club’s director of football Greg Miller.
He said on Thursday that he was unfazed by criticism directed at him.
“That goes with the territory, that’s water off a duck’s back. I think that’s neither here nor there, it’s irrelevant really.”
Frawley said his players had the chance to respond to its critics against Adelaide this weekend, in what he believes is one of the most important games for Richmond in the last few years.
“The pressure’s high. Probably a little bit higher than we would have wanted it to be.
“We thought we would have been in a hell of a lot better position than we were after four games. But we’re not, we can’t do much about that, so we just have to get on the front foot and be positive and react in the right way.”
1:17:45 PM Thu 22 April, 2004
Samantha Lane
Sportal
Richmond coach Danny Frawley has conceded that some of the criticism fired his way by several high-profile media commentators may have been warranted.
Frawley and his team have been heavily criticised since losing their last three matches, against Melbourne, St Kilda and Geelong by an average margin of 51-points.
Frawley, in his fifth season as Tigers coach and on the final year of his contract, has guided his team to 15 wins from 48 matches since leading them to the 2001 preliminary final.
Former Richmond coach, now media commentator Robert Walls this week described Frawley as a ‘dead man walking’, while former Bulldogs coach Terry Wallace also made public his criticism of the side.
“A lot of what’s been written has been warranted,” Frawley said before the team meets winless Adelaide in an important game at Telstra Dome this Friday night.
“Those things, they don’t hurt at all because I suppose if you’re going to worry about sticks and stones you are going to become reactive… as I said, a lot of it’s warranted.”
Frawley even said he accepted the angry tirade directed at him and his players as they walked up the race following a 49-point loss to Geelong last weekend.
“The Richmond supporters are very passionate and like everyone else they’re very frustrated. That’s warranted. That’s fair enough.”
Frawley has been guaranteed his position until at least the end of this year by the club’s director of football Greg Miller.
He said on Thursday that he was unfazed by criticism directed at him.
“That goes with the territory, that’s water off a duck’s back. I think that’s neither here nor there, it’s irrelevant really.”
Frawley said his players had the chance to respond to its critics against Adelaide this weekend, in what he believes is one of the most important games for Richmond in the last few years.
“The pressure’s high. Probably a little bit higher than we would have wanted it to be.
“We thought we would have been in a hell of a lot better position than we were after four games. But we’re not, we can’t do much about that, so we just have to get on the front foot and be positive and react in the right way.”
